[outages] Akamai Cert Issues today

Chris Swingler chris at chrisswingler.com
Wed Sep 30 17:58:46 EDT 2015


Issue is definitely a mismatched CN for me. Looks like Akamai pushed out a CNS cert to some endpoints without having the SANs fully populated for all of their customers sharing the cert. 

> On Sep 30, 2015, at 4:55 PM, Jim Witherell via Outages <outages at outages.org> wrote:
> 
> For instance go to https://www.irs.gov and https://Cincinnati.com and you should see it. 
> 
> We saw it here in the office, and at a few home employees tried it, and on cell phones from vzw and AT&T to. 
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> From:"Sajal Kayan" <sajal83 at gmail.com>
> Date:Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 5:52 PM
> Subject:Re: [outages] Akamai Cert Issues today
> 
> Certificate validates for me (on chrome)
> And also https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/560c589decbe400bf8001bbf/ <https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/560c589decbe400bf8001bbf/> . Tested from multiple points. The tool does TLS validations.
> Unrelated: That endpoint seems to be blackholed from china...
> 
> What common name do you see in the cert given to you? I see "a248.e.akamai.net <http://a248.e.akamai.net/>" which is valid.
> 
> -Sajal
> 
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 4:16 AM Jim Witherell via Outages <outages at outages.org <javascript:return>> wrote:
> e noticed SSL warnings based around Akamai's "a248.e.akamai.net <http://a248.e.akamai.net/>" certificate today <>. NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID is the most common error we're seeing. Can anyone comment on what may be going on? Looks like the cert was renewed or issued on 8/27/2015 <>. Wonder why we are noticing the errors from multiple points on the internet now?
> Jim Witherell 
> 
> Cincinnati OH 
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